RULES:
You are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you.

1.I truly love every kind of music in some form. Some I can't take as much as others. My favorite band is Aerosmith.
2. NFL Football is my favorite sport. GO BRONCOS!
3. My best friend is the smartest person I know. I couldn't ask for a better person to walk into my life.
4. I actually love doing Interior Design as a career, but no one will let me express myself in a job setting.
5. When i was four I fell off a jungle gym and split my chin open at Cheesman Park. I ended up going to the hospital where my dad helped the doctor take the gravel out of my chin and then stitch it up. Sadly this wasn't the only time I split my chin. I did it two more times.
6. I was only in marching band for a few weeks before I decided it wasn't for me. I preferred concert band. I loved it!
7. I am allergic to mango. anything with mango flavorings or juices.
8. I have an extremely high tolerance to alcohol. YUM BEER!
9. I have 3 cats. Splatter, Dexter, Zoey. I came up with all of their names and I really love them. I think each of them fits them well.
10. I am attracted to guys that are psycho or just plain ass crazy. So I have given up looking for the time being.
11. My longest romantic relationship was only 7 months.
12. I am an only child, but without the stigma attached to that. My parents taught me how to treat others with respect and they didn't spoil me when I was kid. In fact they spoil me more now that I am older.
13. I am a giving person who never expects anything in return.
14. I really love to read romance novels, but not the trashy fabio type ones. I like Sandra Brown novels.
15. My favorite concert was my first, The Eagles in 1994.
16. My mom and I are really close. That freaks some people out, but to me she is one of my best friends. We can talk about anything.
17. I truly am just lazy most of the time. I know it and you don't have to point it out.
18. When I was small and my mom was tying my shoes, i moved my head back and broke her nose. Sadly that wasn't the first time I did it.
19. My English skills are horrible.
20. Math is my favorite subject and it comes very easily for me. I love figures and trying to figure out hard math questions. I should have majored in applied mathematics.
21. I truly am content with who I am. Took me a long time to get there.
22. I don't ever believe that I will be in a relationship or get married. Just a dream right now.
23. What I want most in this life is children. I have wanted to be mom since I can remember.
24. I absolutely love photography. Taking pictures gives me this euphoria that I can't explain. IF i could do this as a career I would. I think my photos are actually pretty good.
25. No matter how crazy or loving my family is...I still love them. Without them I would be nothing.

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A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream:
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision or in none,
Is it therefore the less _gone_?
_All_ that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand--
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep--while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
_One_ from the pitiless wave?
Is _all_ that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

I love Poe's writings. I love his poetry and his short stories. He also wrote a play as well as some essays. He is the father of the modern detective stories. He had a major influence on poetry and writing as we know it.

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Barack Obama gives me hope in this country. He moves forward as our nation's 44th president with the precedence for change in this country. We can only hope that he can provide this change or at least put the wheels in motion to change this great nation.

His speech was very moving to me. It is the first inauguration that I have ever watched and the first that I have ever paid attention to. I am glad that I got to witness this history live on cnn.com. It was amazing to see all the people that showed to watch this man make history. It is an amazing sight to see this country coming together in these tough times and be thankful that a man like Obama can change this country. He already has.

Like he said, "There is work to be done." He is absolutely right. Not just by him but every American. We all have to work together in this nation to make it a better place. Not one single person can change, it will take many to change. Mr. Obama also referred to the time of petty differences and false promises. The nation is ready to move on from the things that Mr. Bush has done to this country and look forward with our heads held high. Only time will tell what he really can do for this country, but in my opinion he has already done so much just to change the face and hope of this great nation.

So i am prepared to watch and see how this country comes together under the direction of Mr. Barack Obama. And we will see how the hope and determination of one man can change a country.

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I just quit my job this morning. One moment I am in relief and the next moment I say, "with the economy the way it is...." But luckily I am more relieved. I had been wanted to it for a couple months now...and since I just moved I figured why not. I was increasingly not happy...and for the first time in months i was laughing this morning to the guys on talk radio.

Other than that I am doing fine. My move went well....had a bit of the stomach flu, so unpacking hasn't gotten too much underway, but that will change now. In fact after I came home to day i noticed I was motivated to do it.

SO what now? who knows. I figure I am going to live day by day. I found that I really despise commuting and that if I have a job closer to home, I am happier. It's funny how a little thing like commuting bothers me. My ex-boss was an ass too. I hated the fact that everyday I felt stupid, and I wasn't taught what to do and how to do it correctly.

BUT I AM FREE!

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Haven't been on here in a while. I have been extremely busy.

I am getting ready to move into my new house. I am soooo excited. I am moving the weekend after Christmas. So no Christmas tree for me and the kitties this year. Which sucks...but it will be so much easier. Packing just sucks though. I think it is the single most thing i hate to do. You can never have enough boxes...and it seems never ending. Cause then you turn right around and then have to unpack it all.

I got a new laptop as a gift from my parents. I was completely shocked when my mom came to me and said we are getting you a laptop, but you are going to pick it out. Day 3 and I am loving it.

My job sucks. My boss and I had a huge fight right before thanksgiving. It entailed the fact that I worked about 18 hours of overtime and he wasn't going to pay me for it or give me comp time. After threatening to quit, he decided to give me comp time. But I still feel cheated. Like he doesn't want to pay OT. Might be a problem in the future. Now the office environment blows...it is tense and full of snide remarks. I don't want to go to work anymore. I am officially looking for another job. But, in this job market I am not hopeful at all. I am actually thinking about quitting my job and working at a gas station. That will make me happier. How sad is that? So needless to say I am a bit depressed about the job situation. I hate the whole "walking on eggshells" thing. It has only been 4 months. I wish that I was unemployed...how sick is that?

Right now I have bronchitis, which my throat really hurts and I have trouble sleeping.

BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!! BLAH!!

that is how i feel. Chin up and I will get over it! good day all!

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I got this from my friend Jessica.....This is BRILLIANT and I definitely thought worth sharing:

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
(source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/drill-drill-drill_b_124829.html)

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.

I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.

But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.

I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."

Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.

She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.

Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.

Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.

Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.

I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.

If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.

Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?

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